How Do the Financial Markets Respond to India’s Asset Purchase Program? Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis

K. P. Prabheesh and Sanjiv Kumar

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2023, vol. 59, issue 5, 1591-1606

Abstract: This study examines the impacts of India’s unconventional monetary policy on the exchange rate, stock market, and bond market during the COVID-19 crisis. The Reserve Bank of India announced an asset purchase programs (APPs) four times during the pandemic. Using daily data from January 1, 2019, to August 13, 2021, and applying the EGARCH methodology, this study finds that the APPs effectively reduced the yield rate in the bond market and its volatility. However, the first two announcements did not impact the financial market significantly. In contrast, the third and fourth announcements helped to compress the yield rate and its volatility. Further, the AAPs also helped to restrain the exchange rate depreciation and its volatility. Overall findings suggest that APPs had a desired impact on the targeted variables.

Date: 2023
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